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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

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Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ↗

— Anne Brontë

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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